How to Use northeasterly in a Sentence

northeasterly

adverb or adjective
  • Light northeasterly breezes near 10 mph may blow by late day.
    — A. Camden Walker, Washington Post, 31 July 2020
  • Winds will become a bit more northeasterly, which will just reinforce the cloud cover.
    — Washington Post, 21 Nov. 2020
  • High pressure to the north provides a northeasterly flow of air, bringing in low clouds and cool temperatures.
    — Dave Epstein, BostonGlobe.com, 24 Aug. 2019
  • The name comes from the continuously strong northeasterly winds that precede the nor'easter.
    — Fox News, 11 Feb. 2020
  • It will eventually be steered more northerly and northeasterly in the next 24 to 36 hours.
    — Washington Post, 5 Nov. 2020
  • Afternoon northeasterly wind gusts could reach 17 mph, forecasters said.
    — Kirk Mitchell, The Denver Post, 5 Aug. 2019
  • Three were among the state’s largest of all time by early September, when hard northeasterly winds blew them into an entirely new realm of superlatives.
    — Daniel Duane, Wired, 30 Sep. 2020
  • Strong surface high pressure in the Great Basin will promote strong northeasterly Santa Ana winds.
    — Los Angeles Times, 23 Oct. 2019
  • Combine the gray conditions with a chilly northeasterly breeze, temperatures most of Sunday could stay in the upper 50s.
    — Steven Sosna, CBS News, 23 Apr. 2026
  • Farther to the west, the weather service in Mobile said to expect gusty northerly to northeasterly winds Sunday and Monday.
    — Leada Gore, AL.com, 9 Sep. 2017
  • Consider that there needs to be an inflection point where the winds shift from southerly to more easterly, and then eventually northeasterly and finally northerly as these storms rotate.
    — Dave Epstein, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Feb. 2021
  • The smoke plume, being blown downwind by the strong northeasterly Santa Ana winds, stretched more than 300 miles out over the Pacific Ocean.
    — Kathryn Prociv, Washington Post, 8 Dec. 2017
  • Team New Zealand won the 10th race by 46 seconds in a shifty northeasterly breeze to complete its defense of the famous Auld Mug.
    — Chronicle News Services, San Francisco Chronicle, 16 Mar. 2021
  • Friday’s winds will be a traditional Diablo wind, blowing from the north down the Sacramento Valley before turning east-northeasterly in the Bay Area.
    — Anthony Edwards, San Francisco Chronicle, 4 Mar. 2026

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